◄ 2 Samuel 22:12 ►
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Good News Translation
He covered himself with darkness; thick clouds, full of water, surrounded him;

New Revised Standard Version
He made darkness around him a canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.

Contemporary English Version
Darkness was your tent! Thunderclouds filled the sky, hiding you from sight.

New American Bible
He made darkness the cover about him, a mass of water, heavy thunderheads.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.

made

2 Samuel 22:10 He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

Psalm 18:11,12 And he made darkness his cover, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air. . . .

Psalm 27:5 For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

Psalm 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

dark waters [heb] binding waters

Context
David's Song of Deliverance
…11And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings of the wind. 12He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.13By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.…
Cross References
1 Kings 20:12
And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word, that he and the kings were drinking in pavilions, and he said to his servants: Beset the city. And they beset it.

Job 36:29
If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

2 Samuel 22:11
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